Cyprus-based metallers ARRAYAN PATH (formerly ARRYAN PATH) have announced that former BLACK SABBATH vocalist Tony Martin will be sharing vocals on the title track to their upcoming album, Ira Imperium, along with Nicholas Leptos.

In the band’s own words: “We are truly humbled to have worked with this amazing singer, one of our all-time favourites! His singing has always been (and still is) out of this world and of course this is also evident in his performance on the song ‘Ira Imperium (The Damned)’. This is a great pleasure and honour for us and THANK YOU Tony!”

Arrayan Path will have not one but two albums in a short period of time. Following the release of Ira Imperium a new album will come out in early 2012. It will be titled Stigmata and more details regarding that will be made available at a later stage. Both albums will be released by Pitch Black Records and die-hard fans can of course expect special limited editions for both albums.

The band has also made the move towards slightly modifying its name of over ten years. This was done for obvious reasons and the fact that it became extremely annoying for all band members trying to convince others on the meaning of their band's name. It was decided to simply add an extra ‘A’ in ‘arryan’, thus changing the pronunciation and of course obliterating even the tiniest concern that Arrayan Path is in any way related to Nazism or any kind of racism or other extreme political views.

Commenting on this, Nicholas Leptos says that “this was always evident through our lyrics and live shows but despite our best efforts to try to convince people otherwise some still chose to look at it differently. What does the new name mean…? Absolutely nothing! The decision to modify our name wasn’t easy but we felt it was needed so there you have it. Arrayan Path’s music will remain in the same style and “Road to Macedonia” and “Terra Incognita” will still be played live and will still be mentioned in our discography”.

Arrayan Path has already scheduled to make a number of appearances this year including the Ayia Napa Youth Festival in Cyprus (August), Germany’s Swordbrothers Festival in September and a December show in Athens along with ATLANTEAN KODEX.

For more info on Arrayan Path visit Pitchblackrecords.com.